{"id":75023,"date":"2020-07-29T02:03:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T06:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=75023"},"modified":"2020-07-29T02:01:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T06:01:56","slug":"fed-puts-18-trillion-u-s-government-bond-market-under-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2020\/fed-puts-18-trillion-u-s-government-bond-market-under-lockdown.html","title":{"rendered":"Fed puts $18 trillion U.S. government bond market under lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Marketwatch) Even for a market known to fall asleep over the summer, trading in the Treasury has gone quiet as the Federal Reserve asserts its intent to keep interest rates at zero for a long time. The potential for interest rates to move anytime soon looks increasingly diminished as analysts warn it may take several years for economic activity to mount a full recovery to pre-coronavirus levels. That has discouraged speculation in the world\u2019s biggest bond market, with more traders complaining that the chance to make profits on swings in government bond yields have waned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/fed-puts-18-trillion-us-government-bond-market-under-lockdown-2020-07-28?mod=home-page\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Marketwatch) Even for a market known to fall asleep over the summer, trading in the Treasury has gone quiet as the Federal Reserve asserts its intent to keep interest rates at zero for a long time. The potential for interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75024,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75023\/revisions\/75024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}